A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Lorraine Kakaza/Vosman,eMalahleni,Mpumalanga/150917 Today we had a workshop at Vosman location Emalahleni ,Mpumalanga province here in South Africa. The purpose of this workshop is to bring the community of Vosman on board and build a relationship with support them to take collective community action on the problems they faced with coal mining. It was such an …
Malizo Kwinana/Langerburg, Mpumalanga/080917 By Malizo Kwinana In January this year, CSAAWU organisers in the Langeburg region, Malizo Kwinana and Deneco Dube, paid a visit to a very big farm, Angora, outside Bonnievale. The CSAAWU representatives were invited by the farm workers as they wanted to know more about their rights and the importance of joining …
Susan Maroba/Johannesburg/040917 Community monitors from the Benchmarks Foundation attended the Jozi Book fair on the 3rd January. Mmathapelo Thobajane represented the women in action in the monitoring school. She talked about our writing, the use of newsletters, the challenge of writing and expressing oneself as well as the importance of writing as women activists and …
Zanele Msibi/Vosman/Mpumalanga/280817 Today at about 4:16pm i was in Vosman when i heard a terrible vibration that was so heavy. I hears windows shaking after the blasting at Motau mine went off. I saw how the dust look like after the blasting took place
Community Alerts/ Sbu Hlolweni/Secunda-Mpumalanga/20 August 2017 The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is a leadership program, organized by the White House in Washington (USA). The program was started by former president of United States of America, Mr. Barak Obama with the aim to train African leaders and to shape a better future of Africa. The …
Community Alerts/ Lorraine Kakaza/Carolina-Mpumalanga/19 August 2017 We were workshop today with Susan Moraba at life-love at Emalahleni run by the Centre for Environmental Rights on the 19 /08/2017 We learnt about the right to information on the challenges we face as a community. We looked at the emission standards for the coal mining industry. This …
Community Alerts/Lorraine Kakaza/Carolina-Mpumalanga/21 August 2017 Today residents from the communities of Vosman , Emalahleni protested for RDP houses Residents from Vosman “all zones”, Lynville,Kwaguqa, and Corrination protested since Friday 18/08/2017 ,Saturday, Sunday and today on the 21/08/2017 they. They demanded RDP houses which are being built next to Pineridge. Some of the houses are finished …
Community Alerts/Lorraine Kakaza/Carolina-Mpumalanga/19 August 2017 A water clinic course for civil society practioners was held at Middelburg at the Nkangala district Mpumalanga province South Africa as from the 15 to 17 of August 2017. The aim of this course is to work collectively, networking and communication , so that we can save our water at …
Community Alerts/ Promise Mabilo/Empumelelweni-Mpumalanga/27 July 2017 One of our member VL Mabaso was visiting KZN then they visited communities which are surrounded by a new mine called Shanduka and they want to relocate them with their graves and residents are refusing especially the elderly residents. Vosman residents are now scared after we spoke to them …
Community Alerts/Zanele Msibi/Clewer-Mpumalanga/27 July 2017 Wednesday 19/07/2017 at 11:40am we had our environmental tour in MNS we came across buckets community members queuing for water at the collection station, when we interviewed the community members they said it’s been 3 weeks without water. They come to check whether the municipality has brought water daily but …
Tunatazama is a southern African network of community organisations living near mines. This network is supported by The Benchmarks Foundation, Southern Africa Resource Watch, Zimbabwe Environment Law Association, Centre for Environment Justice, Associação de Apoio e Assistência Jurídica às Comunidades, Norwegian Church Aid - Tanzania, and the Maluti Community Development Forum.
